Imagine you had only a couple of hundred dollars to your name?
Then imagine you had a family to support and that money was scammed from you - what would you do?
This is what happened to the Donovan's, Nathan and Madison, who have a baby and a toddler.
The family, who are from New Brunswick, receive social assistance as Nathan is disabled after breaking his back in a car accident eight years ago.
Man gives his car away to a struggling family that lost their last 600$ to an online car loan scam. https://t.co/oxKh3jY2Gr
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They wanted to get off assistance and so applied for a car loan so that Madison could work again.
They gave $600 of a deposit for the loan, however, they never received it.
Nathan said, ''it would get us up out of the hole we're in. So I think it was the hope that kind of blinded us to the reality that this was a scam."
Nathan told his story to CBS News and a listener of the show, Denis LeBlanc, had some good news for Nathan.
He had been trying to sell his 2007 Volkswagen Jetta so he asked his wife and asked if they could afford to give the vehicle away.
Denis said, ''we had some ideas of what we were hoping to do with the money from the sale of the car.''
He continued, ''I said, 'Can we swing it if we don't make money on this or any money at all?' And she goes, 'Yeah - I think we can do that'."
Nathan had the keys to the Jetta a few days late and this act of kindness changed everything for the Donovan's.
They have the car, Madison is working full time and they are no longer in assistance - what wonderful news, and all thanks to one man's generous gesture.
